ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Minimal Pair, Sound Symbolism, Discrete Category
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What are the specific properties of the language code. Semantics; the ideas of meaning; the signs or components of this communication system has meaning; reference can be a reference of semantics. Semanticity: means that linguistic signs have meaning . Typically, more specific than winking and uhm . Relationship between the thing being referred to and the means and sounds used to convey it. Arbitrariness: refers to the fact that there is no essential connection between the meaning of a word and the set of sounds used to convey that meaning. No essential reflection between the sounds of the word has nothing to do with the meaning. Composed of sequences of sound; spoken language is used with sounds. There is no essential connection between the name of the object and the meaning. Fixed by convention no essential connection; demonstrated through the different languages and their differences in words for dog. Sound symbolisms in language, associate with sound.
